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Catholic Bishops kick against GMOs

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  • Don Blunt 10 years ago

    Thank you, Bishops.
    Let's hope our Politicians have enough brains to understand what you are talking about

  • Krikri,, 10 years ago

    The MPs and a few selfish technocrats are pushing this GMO foods in return for a few millions of US$ in their foreign accounts. Catholic Bishops pls intensify your battle. We support you

  • Nana_Los Angeles 10 years ago

    Please do not adopt American culture into our country. They are a capitalist nation living in a cycle of destruction. People eat GMO products for the fast food industry to make billions of dollars. When the people get termina ...
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  • Nana 10 years ago

    God bless you for speaking for the ordinary Ghanaian. Our politicians, led by oteng Adjei and others, sell us for a mess of porridge. Thank you for being the voice for the oppressed, the down-trodden and the sought after slav ...
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  • JOHN SAMSON 10 years ago

    GM is not a religion, everything change as time goes on. Fertilize is GM, the seedless tomatoes we been eating are all GM. The millet that is grown in the north is all GM.
    Everybody has been eating GM food over 50 years in g ...
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  • BRAY 10 years ago

    These are bishop GM to belief in something that Jusus son of Mary dead on the cross, GM again to belief that dead man wake up and had food with his followers. If body is no GM how can you belief in such a thing. Why do they t ...
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  • Don Blunt 10 years ago

    The fact that many physically challenged people are using wheel chairs is not a good reason for you to get one leg amputated, and to replace it with an artificial limb.

    Why do you need GM crops in a country where produced ...
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  • mckeens 10 years ago

    If only our MPs would not be so corrupt as to forget their parent's efforts to pay their school fees from the local crops that they cultivated over the years! But for the sake of money they will readily accept a few pesewas f ...
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  • AKONFEM JDM ATOPAHENE 10 years ago

    MAHAMA IS IG CORRUPT IN GHANA HISTORY,THANA IS RICH BUT THE PEOPLE ARE POOR,INFACT MAHAMA IS A BIG DOG,EVIL AND FOOOL,PERIOD

  • Dr clememt 10 years ago

    Forget about these calabule bishops

  • mckeens 10 years ago

    My friend, think before you talk. What is the evil that you see in what those Bishops are putting across? With xters like you, where does Ghana stand?

  • mckeens 10 years ago

    You don't agree with him, good and fine! Thai is not the issue at stake. try to get it right, ok?

  • DR. SAM 10 years ago

    ONE OF THE FEW GOOD THINGS LEFT IN GHANA THAT HAVE NOT BEEN PERVERTED FROM THE WEST IS AGRICULTURE-I THINK GHANA MUST NEVER ALLOW GENETIC MODIFIED FOOD IN THE COUNTRY THE LONG TERM PROBLEMS ARE FAR GREATER THAN THE BENEFITS ...
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  • PapaP 10 years ago

    About 60% of our real natural healthy food produced annually go to waste due to:
    1. Poor farming technology and tools
    2. Lack of roads
    3. Lack of markets to get good prices for our farmers
    Which of these will GMO foods so ...
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  • Victor A. Young 10 years ago

    With approx. 50% of our population engaged in farming, we don't need GMOs in producing our agriculture and crop production. We don't have to follow blindly. No, we don't need to do that!

  • Oppong Kyekyeku 10 years ago

    What advice has this government ever heeded to? They will duly it against all odds!

  • Me 10 years ago

    I don't understand why Ghanaians have become so arrogant and uncivilized.Need I remind the idiots talking nonsense here that Ghana as a Country import even water and toothpicks? This assumption that our voice count for anythi ...
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  • danny 10 years ago

    What exactly is your point?

  • Atopahene 10 years ago

    The point is Ghanaians need to start providing for ourselves or stop complaining so much.

  • Don Blunt 10 years ago

    Are Ghanains begging for the introduction of GM crops?

  • sonkofa 10 years ago

    We still have good people like this Rev. It means that there is still hope. I'm a muslim but I'm 100% in agreement with this humble man.My the Peace of Almighty God be onto us all. My weight was 135 lbs when I came to Ameri ...
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  • OwusuP 10 years ago

    REV,YOUR JOB IS WITH THE MORALITY OF THE PEOPLE NOT NATIONAL POLICIES.OUR COUNTRY IS UNDER ATTACK FROM ORGANIZED FOREIGN GAY ADVOCACY GROUPS TRYING TO IMPOSE THIS ABNORMAL LIFESTYLE ON US YET I DON'T HEAR YOU SAYING OR DOING ...
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  • danny 10 years ago

    There is no logic in your piece!What is the link between GM food and homosexuality?

  • Allan 10 years ago

    You are right on point there Owisup,I don't know when it became permissible for religious leaders to delve into politics and state affairs.They should focus on dealing with the rampant charlatans taking advantage of their par ...
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  • Ojam 10 years ago

    The Church is advised to stay away from politics and remain the voice of morality instead of being spokespeople for or against products.

  • Kofi 10 years ago

    Yes because citizens of the country do not include leaders of the church, right? How many times haven't you heard of the church partnering with the state for development?

  • Pythagoras 10 years ago

    OwusuP, the Bishops are also Ghanaians so they are free to comment on national policies in addition to their core spiritual/moral duties. As for their opposition to gayism, let me refer you to an issue of the Daily Graphic of ...
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  • boss 10 years ago

    Annoying when people talk about stuff they have no idea about. Food security is an issue in Ghana and if anybody thinks differently,then that person is leaving in a dreams land. Instead looking up the scientific data on GMOs, ...
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  • danny 10 years ago

    So why is the advanced world not so keen on GM food?

  • Abedwa 10 years ago

    You seem to be under the impression that the so called "advanced world" is always right.What is wrong with us going through the educating process of figuring for ourselves why we shouldn't use genetically modified food.

  • PAAPA 10 years ago

    STOP TALKING FROM YOUR ASS.WE ARE NOT PART OF THE DEVELOPED WORLD AND OUR FOOD SECURITY IS ASOLUTELY DIFFERENT FROM THEIRS.IF GM FOOD CAN BE MADE SAFE FOR CONSUMPTION OUR DECISION TO USE IT SHOULDN'T BE BASED ON WHAT OTHERS I ...
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  • danny 10 years ago

    You are an idiot!

  • KEN 10 years ago

    You should get out of your cave and travel to south america and see what is happening on the farm ,IT is backward cave dwellers like you that monsanto bribe to get their poison on our street,

  • BRO DAN- TRC 10 years ago

    BLESSED ONE OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD; YEA,HUMANITY; DEATH AND LIFE ARE -NOT- THE SAME. THEREFORE AMERICA AND THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD -MUST- REJECT THE "PRISM" SECRET MARK OF THE BEAST PROGRAM PREPARED BY -"THE WORKERS OF ...
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  • zion 10 years ago

    evil policy.may the idea fail in Jesus name Amen.

  • HABLUTA SENYO 10 years ago

    IF DR.KWAME NKRUMAH WERE TO BE ALIVE HE
    WILL SAY BIG NO.THE WESTERNERS WANTS MAKE AFRICA FARMERS A SLAVE AFTER ALL GHANAIANS ARE NOT STAVING LET US KEEP OUR TRADITION TO OUR OWN INTEREST.FORGET ABOUT THE CATHOLIC.OLD MEN WIT ...
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  • Ato 10 years ago

    This stupid government will bring stupid idea to harm innocent people

  • jake 10 years ago

    Same as the Jews were immigrating from Egypt. Any form of food that can feed millions MUST be welcomed.

  • oyinasky 10 years ago

    those talking nonsense about GMOs make me sad. Someone said earlier that there no GMO food currently in Ghana .this pure ignorance. Does he know that corn from IOWA used in making the cornflakes that his children eat every mo ...
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  • Don Blunt 10 years ago

    Sorry you do not want to understand the real problems. And please stop insulting people who think differently about the subject. Nobody is talking nonsense.
    Our traditional farmers will not be in the position to buy Monsanto ...
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  • Koti 10 years ago

    Russian's president Putin, who doesn't have to be held in Monsanto's evil tentacles (like Barack H. Obama is...he's Monsanto's man, just like our own Kofi Annan) will listen to his scientists.

    The whole idea behind Monsant ...
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  • ATOPLANS 10 years ago

    man of god,have u got any idea of where all these traders import there foods from and how they are produce.what they import is what we went to grow.is it wrong or u are payed to talk.i will advice u to stop the importers.

  • di carlo 10 years ago

    100% organic is the way forward,GMO and chemicals in food causing so much side effects to include the rise of death caused by cancer.Our body is organic and can only assimilate organic food to nourish and even heal the body.

  • Cynthia 10 years ago

    Bishops

  • STEVE 10 years ago

    In my opinion, Ghana must discard GMO's entirely. The side effects are too grave and not secure for consumption.We have cultivated all these years naturally, and why now. The West must not force us on the issue of GMO. The sa ...
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  • Ganyo 10 years ago

    They also kicked against the introduction of condoms.

  • True Ghanaian 10 years ago

    The fact is that Politicians ONLY think of what they can get now…That is what I call the Esau syndrome.
    ORGANIC all the way….May the God we serve rain down curses on all these politicians trying to introduce GMOs into th ...
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  • VICKY LEE BENTON 10 years ago

    WHAT MADE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ? YOU WERE ADVOCATING FOR IT. HOW MUCH DID THEY PAY YOU TO COME OUT IN SUPPORT OF IT ? AFTER GETTING ALL THE BASHING, YOU MADE A U-TURN.
    PEOPLE LIKE YOU PEDOPHILES MAKE ME PUKE, WHEN I SEE YO ...
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  • Kofi 10 years ago

    You probably did not understand what the issue was about. Please, take your time and read what the Bishops said or better still get someone who is literate to read and explain it to you.

  • sam 10 years ago

    I shake my head in shame when position statements like this one is made by persons who are suppose to know better.
    They claim some children in America are suffering from this GMO. Where is the evidence to support their clai ...
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  • DONBOLI 10 years ago

    These bishops should stop lying to ghanaians, who says GM crops are harmful. The fertilizes used in our farmers are they natural in our crops.
    These bishops should continue misleading with Jusus not crops. These are people w ...
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  • pat 10 years ago

    PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, THE EFFECTS OF THE CONSUMPTION OF GMO FOODS ARE NOT IMMEDIATE BUT RATHER VERY LONG TERM EFFECTS WHICH WILL BE TOO LATE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT.......SO THE FACT THAT U ATE AND DIDNT SEE IMMEDIATE REACTION ...
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  • ADONGO EMMA 10 years ago

    If GM was killing all ghanaians would have been dead my now. Can anybody remember how groundnt use to taste and look like? Tomatoes with no seeds in them, cocoa with fertilize, maize white and yellow.
    Advancement in farming ...
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  • awuni Douglas 10 years ago

    I support the bishops idea

  • MORKEH-NYANN (Axim/USA) 10 years ago

    GHANA SHOULD STOP THE NONSENSE OF GMOs (disease manufacturing) AND GO BACK TO THE NRC'S (ex-Acheampong's) "OPERATION FEED YOURSELF"PROGRAM.

  • pat 10 years ago

    GMOS LACK WHAT WE BENEFIT FROM THE NATURAL ORGANIC FOODS WE HAVE ......THE NATURAL ORGNAIC FOODS ARE VERY GOOD PROMOTERS OF OUR HEALTH please, please, please, the effects of the consumption of gmo foods are not immediate but ...
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  • Odasanibi 10 years ago

    Helloo fellow Ghanaians, can the government come out with how food we produce annually and how much go to waste due to Bad roads, Poor storage facilities, old farming techniques and fertilizers and so on and so forth.
    We don ...
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  • The Truth Floats 10 years ago

    Friends show each other the best way to tread. I like this Catholic Bishop, Most Rev. Joseph Osei-Bonsu, for his honesty and love for the country. I have nothing to give him and people like him than to tell him to quit his pr ...
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  • Parco,USA 10 years ago

    Hey,I'm not catholic but the Bishop is very right,Don't ever follow this people in so called developed countries.They are not truthful,they will sell you anything even if it will kill you.Ghana,please never take this practice ...
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  • BOB TEMA 10 years ago

    CORRUPT MAHAMA AND HIS USELESS NDC GOVT WILL BRING IN GMOs TO KILLED PEOPLE IN GH.

  • Analyst 10 years ago

    The GMO debate has not been honestly conducted by the scientific fraternity in Ghana. They seem to be harping the so-called benefits of GMOs without considering the dangers they pose to health, the environment and the farmin ...
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  • black osei 10 years ago

    GMO / PAPACY

  • black osei 10 years ago

    WHY IS THE DEVIL FIGHTIN EVIL

  • Mr. Gyasi Toni 10 years ago

    Oh Ghanaian leaders. What I've realized is that they are too short sited when posed with matters that need critical analysis. The whites will wrap a message, idea, product etc. with a very beautiful and appealing package. Ins ...
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  • Canadasheabutter(GhUWR) @ Abudu ibn a 10 years ago

    THIS A VERY IMPORTANT NATIONAL ISSUE 7 WE APPLUAD THE CHRISTIAN COUNCIL FOR THEIR SOLIDARITY.

    JUST SAY NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TO GENETIC MODIFIED FOODS IN ALL ITS FORMS , GHANA DON'T NEED ANY STUDY TO DETERMINE ITS VIABILITY. ...
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  • kwame 10 years ago

    the suggestion is such an appreciable one